Moore: ‘Christians who boycott voting are opting out of civic responsibility and neighbor love’

“Christians who boycott voting are opting out of civic responsibility and neighbor love. [Abstaining on Election Day is] more akin … Continued

by Georgetown/ On Faith

“Christians who boycott voting are opting out of civic responsibility and neighbor love. [Abstaining on Election Day is] more akin to Pontius Pilate washing his hands rather than John the Baptist taking on the powers-that-be, […a form of utopianism] in which Christians find no candidate pure enough to be trusted. In any election, we are not voting for a mayor of the heavenly New Jerusalem; that office is occupied. We are entrusting a group of fallen sinners — as we all are — to lead us in navigating the common good.”